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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 30, 2015
Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Mustafa Kutluk Testicioglu, Mountain View, CA (US);
Seth Keith, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Citrix Systems, Inc., Fort Lauderdale, FL (US);
Abstract
A method comprising: receiving, by a first network packet scheduler, from each other network packet scheduler of a plurality of network packet schedulers, a virtual packet for each traffic class of a plurality of traffic classes defining relative transmission priority of network packets; receiving, by the first network packet scheduler, a network packet of a first traffic class of the plurality of traffic classes; transmitting, by the first network packet scheduler, each virtual packet into a virtual connection of a plurality of virtual connections created for each traffic class; scheduling, by the first network packet scheduler, a network packet or a virtual packet as a next packet in a buffer for transmission; determining, by the first network packet scheduler, that the next packet in the buffer is a virtual packet; and discarding, by the first network packet scheduler, the virtual packet, responsive to the determination that the next packet in the buffer is a virtual packet.